No Firearms May Be Carried At The NRA Convention!?!?

This is a discussion on No Firearms May Be Carried At The NRA Convention!?!? within the Concealed Carry Issues & Discussions forums, part of the Defensive Carry Discussions category; I just sent this to them. We'll see what I get back. Guess it'll be the same canned message posted earlier.
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I had planned on attending the annual 2010 NRA meetings in Charlotte, however I was extremely disappointed to learn that even at an NRA convention that we would not be allowed to carry our firearms to the convention center.

It seems very counter productive and hypocritical to fight for the freedom to bear arms, but to ask your very own members to disarm at a member meeting.

I realize that Charlotte has a very large convention center, however, it would have made more sense to hold the meeting in a more gun friendly city/state in a venue that allows NRA members to exercise their 2nd amendment rights.

Unfortunately I will not be attending an NRA meeting until it is held in a location that follows what the NRA is supposed to stand for.

From:AM Response <AMResponse@nrahq.org>
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RE: 2010 NRA Annual Meetings In Charlotte
Thank you for contacting us.
The Charlotte Convention Center does not allow the carrying of firearms, both open and concealed.
The large size of our event and the fact that many of the largest convention centers are in some of the most restrictive cities leaves us with relatively few convention centers large enough to accommodate the Annual Meetings. In an effort to provide all NRA members a better opportunity to attend the Annual Meetings, it is important that we move the event around the country as much as possible. While we will not consider bringing the Annual Meetings to a city with gun laws we feel are restrictive, we must however deal with convention centers that have restrictions simply because there are so few convention centers that both allow conceal carry and are large enough to host all of the events that comprise the Annual Meetings.
Thank you for your support!
Best Regards,
Ken
NRA Member Communications
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Some Internet Providers, such as AOL for example, automatically cut out previous messages when you reply to a message. This will help insure a quick answer to your inquiry. Thanks again!

From:AM Response <AMResponse@nrahq.org>
To:
RE: 2010 NRA Annual Meetings In Charlotte
Thank you for contacting us.
The Charlotte Convention Center does not allow the carrying of firearms, both open and concealed.
The large size of our event and the fact that many of the largest convention centers are in some of the most restrictive cities leaves us with relatively few convention centers large enough to accommodate the Annual Meetings. In an effort to provide all NRA members a better opportunity to attend the Annual Meetings, it is important that we move the event around the country as much as possible. While we will not consider bringing the Annual Meetings to a city with gun laws we feel are restrictive, we must however deal with convention centers that have restrictions simply because there are so few convention centers that both allow conceal carry and are large enough to host all of the events that comprise the Annual Meetings.
Thank you for your support!
Best Regards,
Ken
NRA Member Communications
P.S. Please make sure you include this and any previous correspondence.
Some Internet Providers, such as AOL for example, automatically cut out previous messages when you reply to a message. This will help insure a quick answer to your inquiry. Thanks again!

That's the same canned response that DaveH received yesterday.

Originally Posted by langenc

Im advising em to get a gun friendly site every year-even if the same place year after year.

Exactly.

The tripe about feeling a need to spread the love around the country is hogwash, as the average 1500mi ticket isn't much worse than a 200mi ticket. People come from all over, for these things. But if the NRA continues to show signs it is losing the direction from its moral compass, it's going to be harmed far more than a few long plane flights from supporters. Backbone, NRA leaders. Backbone.

It is a state law not a convention center rule necessarily, and could also be a city rule since they own the building. The law states that any gathering where admission is charged. Which if a non NRA member shows up and wants to get in they must pay and entrance fee to enter. This state does need help with its outdated carry laws that is for sure.

It would be nice if we could get enough members to draw the NRA's attention to the issue, and get a movement going to get the laws changed. I know that is a long shot into the dark, but everything has to start somewhere.

Or those that live in NC could start contacting their State Senators and Representatives. Choose a sympathetic one and get him/her to sponsor some legislative change. Probably won't get anything changed in time for the Convention, but you gotta start somewhere.

not a good idea to go to an nra convention and leave the gun in the truck. if i want to steal guns, ill go where i know there is alot of gun loving people who normally carry are unarmed. hmmmm gun thief dream.

That is just stupid and short sighted...the same organization that tells us how they fight for our rights and quickly throw out how non-american our government is when they do something like this, goes and acts just like the people they claim to be protecting us from. I am a member, probably always will be because I agree with what they "publicly" stand for and what they fight for, but they really dropped the ball here. Wouldnt it of been better to find a place that would allow carry and use this convention as an example of how law abiding Americans can come together and congregate in a LARGE setting without everyone freaking out and shooting each other up????? That would be a stellar example of how guns carry helps keep people safe.